Before we get into this weeks thread I want to take a second to get any posters acclimated that missed it the first time around. Here's what we did last week.

Alot of really brutal teams were submitted for War Machine, but there was one that I thought clearly rose above the rest. I'd like to take just a moment and highlight that team.

I just had to hand it to MegaLotusMan on this one. We really did see some very well thought out and creative teams, but this one definitely took the cake in my opinion. You better be having a really good dice day when you face this build or you will be facing one hell of an uphill battle. Kudos sir.

I'd like to thank everyone that took a moment to participate in last week's thread and I'm very excited to see what type of shenanigans people will come up with this week. Hopefully the ideas posted here will be something to inspire both new players and seasoned players alike. So without further ado we will get right into this week's thread. This week WAX #043 Shadow King says... "Break me¡"

wxm043 V Shadow King
Team: No Affiliation
Range: 5
Points: 122
Keywords: Brotherhood of Mutants, Dark X-Men, Past

10 11 17 1

10 10 17 1

9 11 16 1

9 10 16 1

9 10 15 2

9 10 17 3

8 9 16 4

8 9 15 4

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

(Special) Demon of the Astral Plane: Opposing characters can't counter Shadow King's powers or modify his combat values unless they can use Mind Control.

(Attack) Xavier's Equal... No, Superior: Shadow King can use Mind Control as if he had a range value of 10. When he does, he is not dealt unavoidable damage, and hit targets may be assigned two free actions instead of one. One of the two actions must be a move action.

(Defense) Pure Psionic Being: Shadow King ignores all but 1 damage dealt by adjacent characters. When Shadow King is dealt damage; after actions-resolve, roll a d6. On a result of 3-6, heal him of 1 damage.

Shadow King 121
Man-Thing. 150
Power plant. 28

Man-thing carries shadow king up. Give king the ring that increases targets, mind control other characters and move them next to man-thing. That will be some poison damage. And shadow king can harass and be a damage sponge.

So I came up with

Shadow King
Scarlet Witch @ 50 w/ Secret Avengers ATA
Magneto Prime @ 90 Points
Full Powerplant

Using the Black Ring on Scarlet and carrying both Scarlet and SK w/ Magneto, you can provide stealth to everyone each round. SK can do his thing MC the enemy and Magneto can use some of the rings and act as a secondary attacker.

I would try:

WX Shadow King 122
BS GCPD cycle 19 + gcpd ata 2
CWFF Scarlet Witch 50
NML Bat Girl 67
Split Lip 20
Bos + 4 hammers 18

298

I'd give shadow king mokks hammer to hopefully tie up with the plasticity and use that special defense to its greatest potential. Before he gets into close combat though I would used the gcpd ata to slowly move the cycle up carrying shadow king and scarlet witch so that I could have barrier to block shadow king when needed. Split lip would do his thing dropping hammers and Batgirl would stay in stealth trying to tie up and close attack. Hopefully do enough damage with that 10 range mind control that it makes for easy clean up once everyone has hammers and is in close.

Anyone make a competitive team with Shadow King with some AVX pieces? I really want to run him for my next month's event.

If my venue wasn't running a keyword restriction I might have tried this myself. With any luck someone will take you up on this and we will see a creative AVX build or two. Should be interesting.